Flintham is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district in Nottinghamshire, 7 miles (11 km) from Newark-on-Trent and opposite RAF Syerston on the A46. It had a population of 597 at the 2011 Census and estimated at 586 in 2019. The village name was taken by the Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham. Amenities The Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury and has "a Victorian nave attached to a Norman tower and chancel." It now belongs to the Fosse Group of parishes, with St Peter's Church, East Bridgford, St Helen's Church, Kneeton, St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton, and St Mary's Church, Car Colston. A service is held about once a month. The village has a primary school, currently closed, a village hall (the old school building), and a cricket pavilion. Its one pub, the Boot and Shoe Inn, is in Main Street. There is also a voluntarily run Flintham Community Shop and a museum of rural life. Several gardens are normally open to the public for a summer weekend each year. Flintham Football Club was founded in 1969, however, it was rebranded 3BFC in 2011 and moved out of the village. Etymology The place-name Flintham seems to contain an Old English personal name, Flinta, + hām (Old English), a village, a manor, an estate or a homestead, so probably, "Flinta's homestead or village". The hard grey rock, flint, does not exist in the neighbourhood. Heritage White's Directory of Nottinghamshire described Flintham in 1853 as: "a pleasant and well-built village, 6½ miles south-west by south of Newark, including within its parish 637 inhabitants and of rich loamy land, at a rateable value of £3,324, which was enclosed about the year 1780, when were allotted to the vicar, and about to Trinity College, in lieu of tithes, exclusive of which had previously belonged to the said college. The greater part of the parish belongs to Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hildyard Esq., but Francis Fryer Esq., Richard Hall Esq. and John Clark Esq. have also estates here. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor, which he holds in fee of the King's Duchy of Lancaster, together with several others in this neighbourhood. His Grace has no land here except allotted to him at the enclosure. Flintham Hall, which has been successively the seat of the Husseys, Hackers, Woodhouses, Disneys, Fytches and Thorotons, is now the residence